Telephone stand

ABSTRACT

The application for patent discloses a telephone stand adapted to support a conventional telephone on a spring pressed tray. The stand provides a drawer or a like member adapted to store writing utensils being spring biased to open automatically when released as a consequence of lifting the receiver from the telephone. Preferably, a second drawer or like member is also provided by the stand which is manually releasable to open position if needed.

United States Patent 91 Viera 451 May 1, 1973 1 TELEPHONE STAND [76]Inventor: Perfecto Viera, 98-20 62nd Drive,

Rego Park, NY. 11374 [22] Filed: Jan. 26, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 220,853

[52] US. Cl ..312/319, 312/330 [51] Int. Cl. ..H04m l/04, A471) 88/04[58] Field of Search ..312/330, 333, 348,

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,973,236 2/1961 Hicks et a1..312/319 553,073 1/1896 Potteiger et al..... ....312/3l9 1,434,26510/1922 Rosine et a1 ....312/33O 686,249 11/1901 Beery .312/319 Pringleet a1. ..312/319 2,170,093 8/1939 2,586,543 2/1952 Kennedy ..312/3193,167,371 l/l965 Parcher et a1. ..312/319 Primary Examiner.lames T.McCall Attorney-Borst & Borst [57 ABSTRACT The application for patentdiscloses a telephone stand adapted to support a conventional telephoneon a spring pressed tray. The stand provides a drawer or a like memberadapted to store writing utensils being spring biased to openautomatically when released as a consequence of lifting the receiverfrom the telephone. Preferably, a second drawer or like member is alsoprovided by the stand which is manually releasable to open position ifneeded.

1 Claim, 3 Drawing Figures TELEPHONE STAND The invention relates toarticles of furniture and in particular to furniture containing drawerswhich is adapted to support and house personal articles and to provideassociated mechanism to facilitate access to those which are thuscontained.

While chests bearing spring pressed drawers for purpose of quick openingas shown, for example in U. S. Pat. No. 1,434,265, the article made inaccordance with the invention is believed to provide a unique feature ofconstruction in that the spring adapted to open the drawer is designedto operate for this purpose when the weight atop a hinged cover againstwhich the spring bears is changed to a predetermined value. The value inthe particular embodiment herein disclosed is established in accordancewith the weight of a conventional telephone base and receiver which thecover is designed to receive. The cover normally retains the drawer inclosed position, but is adapted to release the drawer for automaticopening by a second spring when released by the cover.

A second drawer adapted to be opened on manual release by springoperation is also desirably provided.

The preferred form of invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the invention in use;

FIG. 2 is a section through the stand and taken on line 22 of FIG. 1;and

FIG. 3 is a horizontal section taken on line 3-3 of FIG. 2.

Referring to the drawings a telephone stand having a hinged top cover 12is provided with a top drawer l4 and a bottom drawer 16.

The top cover 12 is hinged as at 13 and has a depending stop 18 near theopposite end adapted to engage the back of the drawer for retentionpurposes. At the opposite end of'hinge 13 the underside of the cover 12has a stop 18 which normally engages the back of the drawer 14. Spring20 secured within the stand 10 is designed to pivot the cover, upwardlyand its stop 18 out of engagement with the drawer 14 when the weight onthe top of the cover is at a value less than that of a conventionaltelephone hand set with receiver and microphone disposed in the cradle.A compression spring 22 extending between the back of the stand and thetop drawer serves to open the drawer on such release, the drawer beinglimited in its opening movement by stops 24 against the front wall ofthe stand 10.

Clearly, there could be a writing tablet with memo pad and pencilrecessed therein in place of the drawer the operation and control ofwhich is identical thereto.

In operation, with the hand set 36 in its cradle on telephone 38 andplaced'on hinged cover 12 of the telephone stand 10 the stop 18 engagesthe drawer 14 in its closed position. Upon removing the hand set 36 thespring 20 raises the hinged cover 12 disengaging stop 18 from the drawer14 and allowing it to be opened by the compression spring 22. When thehand set 36 is replaced on its cradle the hinged cover 12 lowers to itsat rest" position. The drawer 14 is then simply pushed in manually untilit engages the stop 18.

As seen in FIG. 3 the bottom drawer 16 is provided with drawer stops 26,one of which is 'used in its closed as well as open position. A lever 28pivoted at 30 and operated by finger button 32 is adapted to engage astop 26 when the drawer IS in closed position. Spring 34 extendingbetween the back of the stand and the drawer serves to open the drawerwhen the button 24 is depressed manually so that the stop and the lever23 are no longer in engagement.

What is claimed is:

l. A telephone stand having a top hinged cover adapted to receive atelephone device, a spring secured to the stand and engaging said cover,a slide member housed by said stand, a releasable connection betweensaid cover and said member and a second spring extending between thestand and said member and adapted to open said member when saidconnection is released by said first spring said first mentioned springwhen compressed being designed to extend when the compression forcethereon is less than that of the weight of a conventional telephone.

1. A telephone stand having a top hinged cover adapted to receive atelephone device, a spring secured to the stand and engaging said cover,a slide member housed by said stand, a releasable connection betweensaid cover and said member and a second spring extending between thestand and said member and adapted to open said member when saidconnection is released by said first spring said first mentioned springwhen compressed being designed to extend when the compression forcethereon is less than that of the weight of a conventional telephone.